Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1880 — The Dollar-Mark. [ARTICLE]

The Dollar-Mark.

ed for. OnTffthe m«t iuteroaringthcothe Tyrian colony lasted ootheAtfamtic Cadiz,MdcsrthjMbe pillars as memorials, over which was built a temple of Hercules. As Che temple increased in wealth, the stone pillars were replaced by others, made of an alky of g«4d and silver; and these two pillars became, in time, the emblem of the city, as s horse’s head ♦*»** of Carthage. Centuries later, when Charles V. became Emperor of Germany, he adopted • new coat of arms, in which the Pillars of Gades or Cadiz, occupied a prominent pooition in the device; hence, when n new coin, the colonnsto, was struck at the imperial mint, it bore the new device, —two- pill ars with a scroll intwined around them. This coin becamea standard of value in the Mediterranean ; and the pillars nod scroll bureau its areeptod symbol in writing. The two horiaontel bora which cross the symbol of the English pound sterling are also thought to have a similar origin. The symbolic origin of the Pillars of Hercules may be tneeu hi back into the remote era prior to the dispersion of the human race from tie Asiatic birthplace. They are identified with the household pillars of the Scandinavians; and the idea from which the concrete embodiments spring is to he found alike in the Ssaakirt Vedss and in the glowing imagery of the Hebrew poets. They are the symbols of day and night, of. light arid darkness, which, to the dav*iiug intelligence of the Aryan races, were evidences of the Omnipotent, and, to the Jewish patriarchs, the work of a revealed Creator.